It’s a new era of “fake safety regulations”. I don’t like them, so they aren’t real.

I live in the neighborhood and drive through that street at least twice a day, it is the largest section of traffic within 10 miles because it has up to 8 lanes. And I just want to know, what type of assholes would put up all those slabs of concrete with live traffic underneath!
We’ve never had this type of issue…

Bridge was still under construction. This is a construction accident. Now it depends on whether the CM got the structural engineer to OK this technique. Then it depends on if the sub built the pieces that failed correctly based on any change order from the structural engineer to brace it to exist before the stays were…

How the bridge was engineered and how it was installed are two different things. Not saying this was an engineering issue, but it could have easily been an install issue with the engineering side of it not having any problems.

I think I read that it was designed by FIU’s engineering department...

I thought the bridge was held up with thoughts and prayers.

Science is for NERDS AND LOSERS, amiright?

Can you clarify that he has martial arts training, like in the Gizmodo article? Your article makes him sound like far more of a weirdo than he really is.

To paint the guy as a psychopath, and the girl as “not the most stable” is such a misguided way to view this story.

This shows that Watterson knew he was wrapping things up. Making peace. Tying up loose ends. I loved this truce with Rosalyn.

I always remembered this strip when I started teaching high school. It’s a lot easier to lean into and embrace the weird for your own ends that to fight against it.

Though you forgot to mention the one time where the strip comes full circle and a real person, Calvin’s one nemesis no less, actually plays calvinball with him towards the end of the strip’s run

Even as an adult, if you aren’t into sports, you’re basically ostracized from a huge bulk of society. At least where I am. It kinda sorta makes a guy bitter. From my perspective, sports is a religion to these people. There is literally no difference between how people approach their worship of whatever god and how…

That’s the worst thing about sports: if you refuse to play them (especially as a boy), you’re told that you’re bad at teamwork and human interactions in general. You start associating one with the other, although the connection is tenuous at best (unless you consider the army to be the model for intimacy and…

Hi Kevin!
I remember I caught a ball in gym. Once. I was so stunned, I didn’t know what to do with it and I completely overshot the guy I was supposed to throw it to. Calvin and Hobbes was a big deal for me in the 80s, since his experiences mirrored my own so horribly well. I still hate sports. And team activities...…

That’s really interesting. That’s not what they taught us in training, so I wonder if it was a conscious shift in the materials we were given, or just that details over time got added to the training until we had a narrative built by previous Pirates.

Believe it or not, this was a complete coincidence. The motivation for the piece was A) the positive response to my Haunted Mansion article and B) the 50th anniversary of the ride, which recently passed.

Thank you for your insight. In the stuff I’ve read, it seems that the Walt-era rides were less A to B, and that Eisner was more driven about the idea of story. This is a quote about Disneyland by Marc Davis in 1969, 2 years after the ride opened: 

As a former Disney cast member who worked at Pirates before the arrival of Jack Sparrow, I wanted to note that the old Pirates ride did have a narrative. Sparrow didn’t add story for the first time; his inclusion created a new (and sub-par, in my opinion) story.

IKR! What’s next? Johnny Depp actually appearing in the ride as Jack Sparrow?